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IAJ Announces Major Initiative to Reform Court Accessibility Standards
Comprehensive program aims to modernize court accessibility requirements and implementation across all jurisdictions.
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Federal judge abandons 6-year bright line of disability accommodation and Safe Harbor in favor of national judicial policy of human rights violation
After six years of accommodating a litigant with Multiple Sclerosis and increasing illness induced by other courts, federal judge Beth Freeman abandoned her precedent-setting national standard on court disability accommodation on March 10, 2025. This leaves no ADA-compliant and no human rights compliant model accommodation for disabled litigants in the United States, using which to compel state and federal court to accommodate (invisible) disabilities. The explanation the judge offered was that she must give Full Faith and Credit to an order by a state court judge, who is being prosecuted in a pending court case in her own federal court for violations of the ADA and human rights and other serious charges, thus, in effect, short-circuiting that lawsuit and rendering a verdict without jurisdiction. She also insisted that if a disabled litigant shows any sign of writing objections to their treatment or filing any document, they shall be punished by the removal of all disability accommodation, and will be ordered to participate in litigation. In so doing, the judge deprived the litigant of life-saving medical treatment and caused him injuries. The Freeman Bright Line of court accommodation should not have been abandoned according to the ADA, since the federal judiciary is charged with the preemptive setting of a uniform national standard on the elimination of all discrimination based on disability ON BEHALF OF disabled litigants.
Read ArticleIAJ Launches Global Research Initiative on Court Accessibility
Major study to examine court accessibility standards and implementation across jurisdictions.
Read ArticleCanceled: 83rd session of the Committe Against Torture
Due to the starvation of funds at the United Nations, particularly by the United States, the 83rd session of the CAT, scheduled for July 2025, was canceled. The non-compliance of the United States with the UNCAT was to be one of the areas of review in the 83rd session.
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